Polls open for Election Day voting

By Missourian staff

April 3, 2012 | 9:48 a.m. CDT

Poll workers and voters opened Election Day 2012 with a trip to the voting sites. School Board and City Council elections and school tax and bonds are on the ballot.

Holly Snyder stands with her children, Emery, 8, and Sam, 10, as poll worker Robert Baily verifies Snyder's address so she can get a ballot Tuesday morning at Woodcrest Chapel, 2201 Nifong Blvd.
| Sam Gause

Holly Snyder and daughter Emery, 8, exit Woodcrest Chapel after voting Tuesday morning. | Sam Gause

Poll worker Dale Griessel holds "I Voted" stickers before handing them out to voters Tuesday morning at Woodcrest Chapel. | Sam Gause

Milo Spurgeon visited the Columbia Public Library with his wife, Norma Spurgeon, to cast their vote for the General Municipal Election. Election polls opened Tuesday at 8 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. | Katie Alaimo

Beeler Lile, 9, watches as her mother, Marty Lile, casts her vote in the General Municipal Election at the Columbia Public Library. Voters are deciding school board candidates and city council members according to their ward. | Katie Alaimo

Nona Jost, left, John Winzerling, center, and Mary Frantz help direct voters for the General Municipal Elections at the Columbia Public Library on Tuesday morning. Frantz said that despite the early morning set up and long hours, she enjoys working at the polling station. | Katie Alaimo